A baby changes everything!

November has flown past and I can hardly believe it is less than two weeks until Christmas day! We enjoyed two wonderful thanksgiving meals with friends near the end of November. One was with our church (about 300 people), the other was with out MMS friends here (about 30). We have now been in the states over a year and Andy and I still have our Scottish accents, but alas both our children are talking more and more like Americans! :0)

Andy went to Florida for two weeks with another colleague and returned on the 10th of December. They were working with Missionary Flights International in Ft. Pierce. Andy will write more about this in the next blog.

I did not anticipate how hard it would be to find time to blog while he was away but as you can see it did not happen. Being a single parent is tough and I only had to do it for two weeks! Part of the reason it was so tough was due to the fact I am expecting our third child and being in the early stages of pregnancy with two little children by myself was a challenge and we often shared the same bed time! I am so thankful I have an amazing God to depend on and I truly experienced his amazing strength and grace throughout those two weeks. Andy arrived back on Saturday and has a few days off to recover from his long working days. We are really enjoying some family time together before he goes back to work tomorrow.

We are looking forward to Abi's first School production tonight - The Gingerbread Man. She has been entertaining me for weeks with the songs and she is so excited about being on the stage.

Matthew has been quite unsettled without his dad and is glued to his side at the moment in case he should disappear again! LOL!

It was a wonderful experience telling the children on Saturday about there new expected sibling due to arrive next June and quite humorous listening to their reaction. Abi is so excited and is already working on some names! Matthew is just not sure what to think - if he can't see it then it doesn't make too much sense yet.

The mother and toddlers I am starting up is going really well and we have provisionally been offered premises at the Job and Family Services department in the town. This will be finally be confirmed in the next few weeks and we will hopefully be able to start mid to late January.

Andy will post soon about his Florida trip. Sorry there are no pictures with this blog like the others but please bear with us as we adjust to the changes going on and the run up to Christmas. :0)

Thank you for taking the time to read this and share in the adventure with us.

Love from Heather, Andy, Abi , Matthew and bump! ;0)